my neighbor shouts to no one in particular. “You’re just going to let us starve? What, did the red, white, and blue finally run out of flow or something? Just gonna’ leave me here to rot?” The guy next door always did have a loud mouth. My stomach rumbles as I lie on my hard bed and stare up...
I knew that voice and it made my fists ball. “You rouse her too quickly and we could lose her,” a voice said. And suddenly everything in me flooded back to life. I was off the table in a frantic scramble. Finding Margaret at my side, my right hand closed around her throat. Grabbing a shining bl...
We waited as the last traces of light disappeared from the horizon. The stars fazed into the sky and the moon rose over the city, washing it in pale gray light. The darkness brought safety in an unsafe world. “Let’s go,” Tye whispered as he stepped from his hiding place toward the road. Our fee...